Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive… — David Stove Copy Share Image
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
